David Stannard's point remains: substitute "Jew" for "Native American/indigene" in Hitchens' prose, and you have a recognizably Nazi argument. I don't remember "it happens to be the way history is made" having worked very well at Nuremberg.
>>Here it is. It's scanned from a .pdf in The Nation's web archive,
>>so apologies for any uncorrected glitches.
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>>Doug
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>>But those who view the history of North America as a narrative of
>>genocide and slavery are, it seems to me, hopelessly stuck on this
>>reactionary position. They can think of the Western expansion of
>>the United States only in terms of plague blankets, bootleg booze
>>and dead buffalo, never in terms of the medicine chest, the wheel
>>and the railway...
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>A far cry indeed from the "glorification of genocide" we were led to expect...
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>Brad DeLong
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